Wagon-body raiser.



No. 650,28l. I Patented May 22, I900.

} H 6. STOUT.

WAGON BODY RAISEB.

(Application filed Sept. 13, 1899.)

(No mm.)

UNITED STATES j ,PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY o. sToUT, on NEW HOPE, VIRGINIA.

wmoa-soov RAISER.

SPECIFICATION forming part0]? Letters Patent N0. 650,281, dated may 22,1900. Application filed September 13, 1899. Serial No. 730,374. (Nomodel.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY O. STOUT, a cilizen of the UnitedStates,residingat New Hope, in the county of Augusta and State ofVirinia,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WVagon-BodyRaisers and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

.This invention relates to apparatus for elevating hay-racks,wagon-bodies, and analogous devices from trucks and running-gear,holding them in suspension and again lowering them into position uponthe truck or run ning-gear.

The purpose of the invention is to dispense with block and tackle,windlasses, and ropes, and to facilitate the operation of loading andunloading, and to provide an appliance operable by the draft for bothpurposes, whereby the desired result can be effected by the driverwhether man or boy.

In its organization the apparatus consists of a frame comprisingvertical posts and tiltin g bars and supports for opposite ends of thetilting bars about in line with the respective posts and upon oppositesides thereof.

The improvement will be described at length hereinafter, pointed out inthe appended claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus, showing thetilting bars horizontally arranged. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, the barsbeing tilted, illustrating the manner of elevating the body. Fig. 3 is aview similar to Fig. 2, showing the disposition of the parts whenreplacing the body on the truck or running-gear.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

At a selected spot the apparatus is located and the vertical posts 1planted and braced from opposite sides, said posts being spaced adistance apart to admit of the team andwagon passing between them. Thetilting bars 2 are disposed inparallel relation and pivoted about midwayof their terminals to the upper ends of the posts 1, so as to rockvertically about a horizontal axis, and are located ata sufficientdistance above the ground to admit of the truck or running-gear pass ingeasily beneath them. A tie-rod 3 connects the upper end portions of theposts 1, and upwardly-divergent braces 4, secured at their upper ends tothe respective bars 2, have their convergent ends secured to or mountedupon the tie-rod.

The tie-rod 3 prevents the spreading of the posts 1 at their upper endsand maintains them a determinate distance apart, whereby they mutuallycontribute to resist lateral stress. The outer sides of the braces 4 areflush with the outer faces of the respective tilting bars and areadapted to bear against the inner faces of the posts 1 and fix theposition of the tilting bars and direct them in their tilting movementsin each direction.

Four posts 5 (two for each bar 2) are arranged to engage with oppositeends of the respective bars 2 and are setin the ground and projecttherefrom a proper distance to form supports for the outer ends of saidbars when tilted. The free ends of the bars 2 rest upon the upper endsof the fixed supports 5 when tilted.

The wagon whose body is to be raised from the truck or running=gear isdriven up to one end of the apparatus, the body engaging over the endsof the bars which have been tilted, as shown in Fig. 2, and therunning-gear and team passing between the said bars. Upon driving theteam forward the body 6 will slide upward on the bars 2 and becompletely disengaged from the truck or running-gear. A rope, cable,chain, or analogous device may be employed to connect the running gearwith the body during the lifting operation. After the body has beenraised the bars 2 are turned from an inclined position to the horizontaland are secured in any convenient way. To replace the body 6 upon thetruck or running-gear, the latter is driven between the posts 1 andbeneath the bars 2 until the front of the truck is about opposite thefront of the body, when the bars 2 are tilted to bringthe front portionof the body upon the front end of the truck, the two being secured. Theteam is driven forward and the body 6 will slide down the bars 2 andsettle upon the truck. In either tilted or inclined posi tion of thebars 2 the posts 5 form supports therefor.

Having-thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is Inapparatus for raising and lowering .wagon-bodies upon their beds,spaced'posts,

a tie-rod connecting the upper endsioif the posts, longitudinal bars,centrally-disposed divergent braces having their outer sides in theplane of the outer faces of the longitudinal bars and tiltingly mountedupon the end portions ot the tie-rod with iheir outer sides I adapted tobear against the inner faces of the upper end portions of the posts, andsup-

